Resource Library

This toolkit was created to help HMRE evaluators understand key program evaluation concepts, common evaluation challenges, and strategies to prevent or overcome these challenges. The standalone briefs provide general information and tips and are not intended to be comprehensive guide to program evaluation or the topic.

This infographic highlights which components of fatherhood programs are most likely to influence the lives of those they touch based upon findings of a meta-analysis conducted as part of a large-scale federal evaluation called Testing Identified Elements for Success in Fatherhood Programs, or Fatherhood TIES.

Discover what rigorous research tells us about 12 interventions that used education as an approach to providing services to clients and the interventions’ impacts on earnings, employment, the receipt of public benefits, and education and training.

Fatherhood TIES will identify fatherhood program core components with a first step of conducting a meta-analysis that drew on technical reports and peer-reviewed journal articles describing fatherhood programs.

This report describes the multimethod approach used to identify core components of fatherhood programs for rigorous testing.

Explore insights and opportunities for applying connection and co-regulation for relationship-based supports for fathers in human services programs.

Explore snapshots highlighting key elements of early Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant recipients, including who grant recipients enrolled, how they recruited clients, the services they provided, and implementation highlights.

This report aims to provide insights into how to best serve young fathers in Responsible Fatherhood (RF) programs.

Explore a series of Continuous Quality Improvement resources, including tip sheets, templates, and worksheets, that were created for the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grant recipients.

Read OPRE’s Division of Family Strengthening (DFS) Fiscal Year 2022 annual report, which includes details of projects related to strengthening relationships, supporting fatherhood, nurturing children through their families, reducing teen pregnancy, supporting positive youth development, and preventing family violence.